Fossil Bird Bath Garden Feature

19"/48.2cm height

17.5"/44.5cm Bath diameter

Weight
33Kg

Description

Beautiful Fossil Sculpture; Artistically and Expertly cut to transform Devonian Marble/Limestone into this Fossil Bird Bath Garden Feature

Professionally cut and then gradually semi-polished for ts overall more natural finish

Each individual Orthoceras and Ammonoid Fossil inclusion is extremely clear, exposing great detail; with Calcite Replaced Calcite chambers.

This mass assemblage is truly unique, and Rare; not only to find [quantity and quality of specimens], but also to discover and un-earth such a large group of specimens together.

Preparation of such a decorative feature is difficult, much of the rock found cannot always be manipulated in such a way, and therefore not much of this type of Fossil Material is available, especially of quality

Information

Orthoceras; also known as Straight Horn and Orthocones is an extinct Nautiloid / Cephalopod from the Orchid Family; Phylum Mollusca.

Note it is sometimes misspelled as Orthocera, Orthocerus or Orthoceros

Genus

Fossil Inclusions in the Devonian Marble Orthoceratites; Orthoceras regulare sp., Ammonoidea from the Devonian Era

Location

Tazzerine, Western Sahara Desert, Southern East Morocco, North Africa

Geological Age

Paleozoic Era, Devonian Period, approximately 420-355 million years ago